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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca the Younger

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Matter More Person
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blame Giving Judgement Speak
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Educational Schoolroom Taught
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feel Philosophical Real
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dawn Expectation Night
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

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